Contributors Index

“Tis’ said an Index is a prosy thing Punch, to re-verse it, will his Index sing.” (PPBk 1845 – Contents Part II)

The Contributor Index draws on the Punch Contributors Ledgers, which include attributions for the Pocket Books starting in 1872, to attribute authorship to these otherwise anonymous texts. These authors are linked to the Curran Index to Nineteenth Century Periodicals both in their attribution notes and via the Contributor Index page. We hope this aids researchers looking to find more examples of these authors' writing across Victorian periodicals. As the project unfolds, and the website develops, we hope to include also attributions for the Pocket Book images. The Punch Contributor Ledgers and other accounting books are held at the British Library (Punch Archive, Archives and Manuscripts) and accessible online via the Punch Historical Archive.

- Bethany Qualls